Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 020d38e8951ce0b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-08-12 16:59:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0c4f440fdf00d3aca209d1cf1af2edc8 SHA-1: 46e53b2a104b3ad0b37907a1cf142f65c9eebf83 SHA-256: 020d38e8951ce0b424a3a2a9cbd71e577337c9a55c3aaaf0110a8fa1a70d5837
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating its primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites. Several of these links point to compromised CMS uploads, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9987

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mathematical+statistics+by+john+e+freund+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://medicaldistri.com/ckfinder_files/files/65003422009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dichvumayphoto.vn/webroot/img/files/28391189618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.uvhk.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b2726e075eb---xupuxulebujuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://viajespereira.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609c3dd83ba0c---kunitomevimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petroblend.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609e49c658802---rumelijid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gocreate.termall.pl/upload/fck/file/51909939974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atut-biuro.com/uploaded/file/6358127820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dirabrealtors.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608cdd7457adb---navufowetesadoginagilazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.brennholz-heinlein.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160e3f6d59a100---todogufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natursany.com//ckfinder/userfiles/files/340272460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0900107678.com/upload/file/nijelevezik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/42899800515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://korean-school.hu/hangul/userfiles/file/7733156476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.davidwoodpersonnel.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16094a5f098aae---podeligerunip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.entornopublicitario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/139e4ee98faff2ae4f0d64fdea02c163/vuvinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://area34.info/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/10342gf1mq4kdqivn9kgejdth7/ronojefagafudim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.potterycommercials.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c6d3a902825---nukupidonajomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.corazondelsol.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/13995281270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nowbali.co.id/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160afa2481c805---5123210848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://growlink.biz/userfiles/file/vedur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://livelyway.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/faxodofov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eduomania.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b3768f2d2eb---23153377410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jjmassociates.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/bb5c80e93f57af561d3e9656734aab94/75920385766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000be05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE05 15720 bytes
SHA-256: f69f4409932d6d814e0b3cbcabb16fb48af0325e2da0d20121ed864d9469ff4a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e6e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fef7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF7 11364 bytes
SHA-256: 5eb30663bf09dd72b91ccee8129faa8ab83defa9ac28b0d1ee416c8e78e3665b